Re: Low memory machines
Spirilis (spirilis@mindmeld.dyn.ml.org)
Wed, 8 Jul 1998 18:50:37 -0400 (EDT)
> At home I have a VLB i486DX/100 with 32MB of memory running 2.1.108 and
> 26MB of swap file. I recently installed my own brand of Linux 2.1.107 on
> my machine at work (secretly), and it is a PCI Pentium 75 with 16MB of
> RAM, with a 128MB swap file.
>
> The odd thing is that the P75 even with 16MB is faster than my i486DX/100
> with 32MB. Why? I'd have expected the P75 to be a lot slower due to the
> size of the memory!
>
I've seen a similar situation...
Someone I know had a 486 DX/100 with 16MB RAM... on an ethernet. Then he
replaced the motherboard with a P66... same RAM.
The BogoMIPS rating went down quite a bit, yet, the Pentium compiled a heck of a
lot faster. I am thinking it's b/c of advances in overall data throughput...
and not as much the instruction execution speed...
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